Pith Number

pith:ZO6ANKDC

pith:2023:ZO6ANKDC4WNUTQG2EMNR5DK3JQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Roaring to softly whispering: Persistent X-ray emission at the location of the Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2018cow $\sim$3.7 yrs after discovery and implications on accretion-powered scenarios

B.D. Metzger, C. Vignali, D. Brethauer, D.L. Coppejans, D. Milisavljevic, E. Berger, G. Migliori, J. Nayana, J.S. Bright, L. Rivera Sandoval, R. Chornock, R. Margutti, T. Laskar, T. Maccarone

arxiv:2309.15678 v2 · 2023-09-27 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZO6ANKDC4WNUTQG2EMNR5DK3JQ}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T07:41:43.051558Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cbbc06a862e59b49c0da231b1e8d5b4c0cb43f3d8df30c166bba3dd5cdb39666

Aliases

arxiv: 2309.15678 · arxiv_version: 2309.15678v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.15678 · pith_short_12: ZO6ANKDC4WNU · pith_short_16: ZO6ANKDC4WNUTQG2 · pith_short_8: ZO6ANKDC

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZO6ANKDC4WNUTQG2EMNR5DK3JQ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: cbbc06a862e59b49c0da231b1e8d5b4c0cb43f3d8df30c166bba3dd5cdb39666

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3fafd2a09756a84a178269ac8661e5447fee8d18072ab7b8e3dd9105b01a4aa3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2023-09-27T14:22:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7bc5b79184df19bc104e6c9b8e2d8f650ac85357ec2945fd36a0af3dda1a8937"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2309.15678",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}